Miriam Kramer joined Space.com as a Staff Writer in December 2012. Since then, she has floated in weightlessness on a zero-gravity flight, felt the pull of 4-Gs in a trainer aircraft and watched rockets soar into space from Florida and Virginia. She also served as Space.com's lead space entertainment reporter, and enjoys all aspects of space news, astronomy and commercial spaceflight. Miriam has also presented space stories during live interviews with Fox News and other TV and radio outlets. She originally hails from Knoxville, Tennessee where she and her family would take trips to dark spots on the outskirts of town to watch meteor showers every year. She loves to travel and one day hopes to see the northern lights in person. Miriam is currently a space reporter with Axios, writing the Axios Space newsletter. You can follow Miriam on Twitter.
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A beautiful cluster of stars shines brightly in a new photo from the European Southern Observatory.

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Here's where to go to get your space shuttle fix in museums across the United States.

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Here are five things you might not have known about Antares.

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NASA's Mars probe is expected to study the atmosphere of the Red Planet in amazing new detail.

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NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) launched in September 2013 to study moon dust. The mission ended in April 2014. Here is everything you need to know about it.

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Have you ever wanted to build your own space shuttle? Now, thanks to LEGO, you're going to get the chance, years after the end of NASA's shuttle program.

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Only the speediest of skywatchers will have a chance to see the total lunar eclipse rising Saturday (April 4): NASA predicts that the total phase of the lunar eclipse will only last about 5 minutes.

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NASA's Scott Kelly — one of two people spending a year on the International Space Station — already feels like the orbiting outpost is home.

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Three new crewmembers just arrived at the International Space Station, and two of them won't be leaving for about one year.

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NASA has a lot of questions about what happens to people who live in space for long periods of time, and it's almost time to get some answers.

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NASA's successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is on schedule and budget for now, space agency officials told members of Congress today (March 24).

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Science experiments conducted on the International Space Station during the orbiting outpost's first yearlong mission could help open the door to deep space for NASA.

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Astronauts on the International Space Station caught sight of an amazing solar eclipse today (March 20), and they have the photos to prove it.

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Green auroras danced in skies around the world last night thanks to a massive solar storm that super-charged the cosmic light displays for St. Patrick's Day.
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